MC5's Kick Out the Jams

MC5's Kick Out the Jams

Unabridged edition

Audio CD (24 Jan 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who gone berserk. It's a unique band that can land itself on the cover of Rolling Stone a month before the release of its debut album and then be booted from its record contract just a few months later. Rock had never before seen the likes of the MC5 and never will again. Many of us who were floored by the 5 in concert were convinced that this was the most transcendently pulverizing rock we would ever experience, while many more who heard or read about the band dismissed the 5 as a caricature, a fraud, White Panther bozos play-acting at revolution.

There was always plenty of humor to the 5 - visionary knuckleheads - though the question was whether they were in on the joke. Frequently ridiculed during their short career, they've since been hailed as a primal influence on everything from punk to metal to Rage Against the Machine to the Detroit populist resurgence of the White Stripes, Kid Rock, and Eminem.

Book information

ISBN: 9781536634860
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Imprint: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
Pub date:
Edition: Unabridged edition
Language: English
Weight: -1g
Height: 171mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 13mm